Publisher Announces BLACK
PULP Collection
Featuring Best Selling Authors
Batesville, AR – 1/26/2013 – Pro Se Productions, a publisher
of Genre Fiction, works to not only harken back to the classic fiction of Pulp
magazines and adventure tales, but also to push the boundaries of modern Genre
fiction in many directions. To that end, Pro Se Productions reveals a new
anthology to be released in early 2013, a collection featuring the work of
various authors, including bestsellers Walter Mosley and Joe R. Lansdale.
Black Pulp is a
collection of stories featuring African characters in leading roles in stories
running the genre gamut. Pulp Fiction of the early 20th Century rarely, if
ever, focused on characters of color and the handful of black characters in
these stories were typically portrayed as racial stereotypes. Black Pulp, a concept developed by
noted crime novelist Gary Phillips, brings some of today’s best authors
together with up and coming writers to craft adventure tales, mysteries, and
more, all with black characters at the forefront.
Also co-editor of Black
Pulp, Phillips observed, “While revisionism is not history, as Django Unchained signifies, nonetheless
historical matters find their way into popular fiction. This is certainly the
case with new pulp as it handles such issues as race with a modern take, even
though stories can be set in a retro context. Black Pulp then offers exciting tales of derring-do and clear-eyed
heroes and heroines of darker hues appealing to all.”
Black Pulp
features a new original essay on the nature of Pulp, both classic and modern,
by award winning author Walter Mosley. Known for his bestselling Easy Rawlins
novel series as well as books featuring Private Eye Leonid McGill, Mosley is
widely published in fiction, both literary and genre, and non-fiction. Mosley
has received several honors, including a Grammy, PEN America’s Lifetime
Achievement Award, and an O. Henry award.
Also featured in the anthology is a classic story by Joe R.
Lansdale. Lansdale is not unfamiliar to Pulp, having written such notable
characters as Tarzan as well many of his own original creations, including Hap
& Leonard. Winner of the Edgar Award, multiple Bram Stoker Awards, The
Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award and many others,
Lansdale’s story provides his own take on Black Pulp.
Other contributing writers include Chester Himes Award
winner Phillips, two time Shamus Award winner Gar Anthony Heywood, noted author
Kimberly Richardson who currently has two works enlisted for Pulitzer Prize
nomination, Dixon Medal winner Christopher Chambers, critically acclaimed
novelist Mel Odom, hip-hop chronicler Michael Gonzales, Pulp Factory and Pulp
Ark Award winner Ron Fortier, Pulp Factory Award winner Charles Saunders, Pulp
Ark Award winners Derrick Ferguson and Tommy Hancock(also Publisher co-editor
of Black Pulp), and noted writers
Michael Gonzales and Alan D. Lewis.
Black Pulp is slated for print and digital release in early
2013 and features an original cover by Adam Shaw. For more information
concerning Black Pulp and Pro Se Productions, contact proseproductions@earthlink.net.
